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Insiders program needs to look beyond short-term economics and engage with broader issue
The Chair of the national 1996 State of the Environment report has warned of adding huge numbers of people to the population when the present population is already degrading our systems irreversibly. Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe says the panel on last Sunday’s Insider program had a long discussion on bringing hundreds of thousands more people to Australia to produce …
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Jobs summit: set immigration level in context of how many people this continent can support
In the lead-up to the Jobs and Skills Summit, an environmental advocacy group has called on the Treasurer Jim Chalmers to resist pressures to accelerate Australia’s population growth with a massive increase in immigration. The national president of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), Ms Jenny Goldie, says that lower population growth, and a stabilised population size …
Jobs summit: Boost salaries for skilled migrants to end rorts
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has called on the Jobs and Skills Summit to resist pressures to accelerate Australia’s population growth with a massive increase in immigration. SPA national president, Ms Jenny Goldie, says pressure by business on the government to lift immigration to 200,000 is more about wage suppression than a genuine solution to skills …
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Earth Overshoot Day edges ever earlier
Sustainable Population Australia says it is no surprise but nevertheless alarming that this year’s Earth Overshoot Day (28 July) is two days earlier than last year (30 July). Earth Overshoot Day marks the day that humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year. From Earth Overshoot Day until the …
Population growth has ‘very high impact’ on biodiversity: SoE report
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed the acknowledgement in the State of Environment 2021 Report released today that human population growth contributes to pressures on the environment and, in particular, that it has ‘very high impact’ on biodiversity. SPA National President Ms Jenny Goldie says the report makes strong statements about population and biodiversity, …
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On this World Population Day, we must reassert women’s right to choose
As the 2022 World Population Day approaches (July 11), Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) calls on the Australian government to reassert a woman’s right to choose and to reject the US Supreme Court’s decision in reversing Roe v. Wade. On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right …
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On this Environment Day – remember Stockholm
On this World Environment Day (June 5), Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is calling on governments to remember what the declaration from the first UN Conference on the Environment held in June 1972 in Stockholm said about population growth. It said: The natural growth of population continuously presents problems for the preservation of the environment, and …
Support union call for income threshold for all skilled migrants: SPA
In the lead-up to Labor’s Employment Summit, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has supported the call by unions for an income threshold for skilled migrants to be well above average earnings. While unions have suggested $90,000 as a pay floor, and the Grattan Institute $70,000, SPA recommends the government should seek to apply one that is …
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Albanese government must introduce a population policy
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has called on the new Albanese government to formulate a population policy for Australia of which immigration would just be a part, in such a manner that it will ensure a beneficial environment for all in this country’s future. SPA national president Ms Jenny Goldie says for too long immigration policy …
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Solutions to land degradation must include an end to population growth
The ability of Earth to provide food for eight billion humans is rapidly declining. Forty per cent of planet Earth’s land is now degraded. Yet, if human population growth is not halted, food for an additional two to three billion will be needed but unable to be supplied, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA national …
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